Improvement in farm-gates



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HORACE W. MULLENNEX, OF ALPINE, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN FARM-GATES.v

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 138,918, dated May 13, 1873; application filed January 6, 1873.

To all 'whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HORACE W. MULLEN- NEX, of Alpine, in the county of Schuyler and State of New York, have invented a new and improved Gate, of which the following is a specication Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improved gate. Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the same on the line c c, Fig. l. Fig. 3 is a horizontal section of the same on the line lc k, Fig. 1; and Fig. 4 is an enlarged side view, partly in section, of the supporting-posts of the gate.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

The invention relates to gates which both turn and slide; and consists in the improved construction ofthe frame in which they slide, hereinafter described and pointed out in the claim.

In the drawing, the letter A represents the body ot' the gate, composed of suitable uprights, and of a series-of horizontal rails, a a, as shown. B B are two hollow frames of rectangular form, placed, respectively, over two of the slats or rails of the gate, and containing :friction-rollers b b, that are in contact with the edges of said rails, respectively. It will be noticed that the upright bars of the frames B B are double or slotted, and that the rails a pass through between these double uprights, and that the rollers b are also hung between the same, as clearly shown in the drawing. Qn the one side of each frame B the uprightsl of the same are made jointed, so that one part of each upright can be swung up to allow the removal of the gate from the frame B. The frames B have projecting sleeves d d, respectively, which are swiveled to cylindrical supports e, that are fastened to a supporting-post, G. The frames B B can thus turn on the supports e consequently the whole gate can be turned on the post, and at the same time it is clear that the gate can. also be slid back and forward in the frames B.

The upper sleeve d may be made in the form of an ornamental cap, as shown.

The gate when hung in the swiveled frames B, as in this case, can be half opened, or more or less than half opened, by sliding it on the frames B, and can then, or in any position on said frames, be turned and fastened at either end to the gate-post D.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by LettersPatent- The two frames B B, having rollers b b and sleeves d d, swiveledon supports e e of a post, 0, as and for the purpose described.

HORACE W. MULLENNEX.

Witnesses 'ALBERT 000K, LEvI MEKEEL. 

